On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Norman Charnley wrote:
>
> > I have been using XFree86 v3.3.6 under Redhat Linux 6.2 on a couple of PCs
> > to connect to a remote HP-UX 10.20 CDE system quite successfully, using
> > the command 'X -query remotehost :2 -bpp 8'.
>
> > After upgrading one PC to Redhat 7.3, running XFree86 4.2.1, I had to
> > change the 'bpp' option to use '-depth 8'. And now I get strange colours
> > on my screen, e.g. menus appearing with white text on white backgrounds,
> > and messages such as 'xsetroot: unable to allocate color for "gray30"',
> > multiple instances of 'Warning: cannot allocate colormap entry for
> > 'LightBlue"' (or other colours), and 'AllocColor' errors when attempting
> > to run image display programs.
>
> > I've still got a PC running the older system (RH6.2, XFree 3.3.6), which
> > still works fine. XFree86 runs locally under Redhat 7.3 just as well as it
> > did under 6.2, with no problems.
>
> > So what's changed, and how do I get back to where I was? Where do I start
> > looking for the cause?
>
> > Any help would be appreciated...
>
> Either disable the RENDER extension (I'm not sure that's possible) or
> upgradde to 4.3.
It's not possible to disable it without a recompile.
He'll have to upgrade to 4.3.
Mark.
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